On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:21:27 -0500, Travis Osterman <tosterman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:35:05 -0500, David L Norris <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >
> > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 23:55 -0500, Travis Osterman wrote:
> > > Recently, I had a nautilus session that crashed and afterward I didn't
> > > have icons or the ability to right-click on my Gnome desktop. I tried
> > > logging out and back into Gnome, nothing had changed. Logging into
> > > KDE worked fine and showed the desktop.
> > >
> > > I googled without getting anywhere and would appreciate any ideas to
> > > try. Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Logout of GNOME, login to a failsafe terminal, and run bonobo-slay.
> >
> > You may also want to clean your user's files from /tmp and then kill all
> > processes running as your user ("kill -KILL -1" from your normal user
> > account, never as root).
> >
> > --
> > David Norris
>
> I tried all of the above ($kill -KILL -1 $bonobo-slay and removing
> /tmp files owned by my user) as well as # rm -rfv /tmp/* /tmp/.* and a
> reboot and am still in the same situation. Logging into Gnome as a
> different user fixs the icon issue so I assume it's a problem with a
> my account. I also have full access to all the panel applications (if
> that's important at all). Thanks again in advance for any suggestions
> to try.
>
> -- Travis
>
FIXED:
I ran $nautilus & and it disappeared once, displayed my icons, and
then came back. After closing nautilus, I logged out to verify they
would still be there - yes. Looks like life is good again. Thanks
for your help.
-- Travis
